Miss Annabelle is ONE

Let's get this straight, my daughter is in love with birthday parties....and all that comes with them.
B and Carter looking oh so cutie pie.
This is what its all about right here folks. She really dug in good. It was fun to watch. She loved it!
Loving on Hannah. She was Little Miss thing in her tutu.
Cake before getting devoured. Sorry pictures are in wrong order. I am still trying to figure out how to get them in a different order....
Lots of fun decor...Amy is good at that.
Fun with counsins!!!!
What's a good party without balloons??? I mean really...

Loved the creativity with the streamers!!!!


Here are some sweet pics of Annabelles Party. It was so much fun! What fantastic decorations and great monkey theme Amy. Annabelle is my cousin Amys daughter....and she's a little sweetie.

I have some more pics coming of Carter's bday but I forgot my camera for that one and the pics are on Ben's phone.

Happy Mothers Day

I had a great day today! It started with Jaiya waking me up saying, "Mom can you make me some food?" That is kinda my 7 o'clock wake up call, she loves breakfast. Loves it.
So we did waffles and I admit this morning to making her breakfast and turning on Busy-town Mysteries with Richard Scary and then climbing back into bed for a hopeful 5 more minutes. Then she came right back in and wanted me to pick out her clothes. So I decided to help her get ready then get myself ready before the boys got up. Ben is always the first on up but today he was battling a cold so he got a little extra sleep. But he did ask Jaiya to bring me something, and she opened the envelope that said #1 mom and it was the cutest card ever! It was a recordable voice card that had Jaiya's sweet little voice saying, "Happy Mother's Day mom, I love you, you're so beautiful!" I listened to it alot today, it is just so stinking cute the way she says it. Wish I could play it for you all! Inside the card she signed her name, dad helped a little but I am so proud of her for writing her name because we have really been working on it and she gets real frustrated with the J. Inside a was gift card to I tunes for some new songs to work out to! I was so excited!! Go Ben! So we got ready and went to church. Afterwards Ben told me I could pick where we had lunch, we decided on take out because neither one of us have been feeling to good this weekend. I have random hives that keep showing up each night and he has a cold. It was a long week for him, a softball game, yl golf tournament, and fusion b ball fundraiser tournament. Plus I woke him up at 3 am Friday morning freaking out because I had hives all over! He Googled it and told me to take Zyrtec because we were out of benadryl.

Back to lunch.....my first choice was rockabelly.....its my fav. But it was closed. sad.
So we headed to get Chinese. Moment of silence please now that Happy Valley is closed. Today we went to a new drive through Chinese place and it was good. But not Happy Valley! After lunch the kids rested/napped and Ben and I worked on my work out play list. Then we went outside with the kids to work on the yard and decided to start the garden. We wanted to get it done earlier....but what can I say.. chunks of time to plant a garden these days....its hard to find. The kids loved helping dig and plant. They got so so dirty from it but loved it! I'm so OK with the getting dirty part if I know we can go right into the tub! So here are some really fun pics of us gardening! I love the memories I had of my family garden growing up, it was HUGE and we always had a ton of veggies. This year we did tomatoes and cucumbers...mmmmm!

Happy Mother's Day everyone. I'm feeling thankful!

Easter 2011

We had a great Easter this year. We had a Easter Egg Hunt with the kiddos Saturday, then decorated eggs at home. Jaiya and Ben made a bird house and hung it in the tree in our front yard. She had been asking Ben to make one and they went into the garage and they had it done in like 10 minutes! Mom came up Saturday night and we had Cox Brothers, and made sugar cookies for Easter. Then Sunday morning came and we decorated the cookies, and I helped hide eggs at church for the kiddos and it was fun to be a part of that. Every year when I was little, the egg hunt at our grandparents house was SOOOOOO much fun. I love being able to watch our kids hunt eggs. We also got to talk with Jaiya about the Easter story and it was fun to see her understand and begin to see that its not all about a bunny hiding eggs but a man dying on the cross for our sins and rising from the grave.

After church we went to a friends house and Ben made his AMAZING mashed potatoes. YUM! They are my favorite but I cannot watch Ben make them because he makes so much cream cheese and butter. Then we went to a neighbors house for dessert to enjoy the cookies! The kids took a nice nap, mom went home and we relaxed for a while then did some yard work and finished the day with cheap mexican food!